in 1912 has come to symbolize the end of the Belle Epoch in France just before the beginning of World War I. It has been called a farewell to a romanticera, a melancholy remembrance of things lost to time, not to be found ever again. The cap on the bottle is an invertedheart that...
As the contemporary drags hot and dangerous, I wonder if these times, right now, are worse than other times of war, protest, fire. To pull an image from the last line in William Stafford’s A Ritual to Read to Each Other …the darkness around us is deep. What revelations lay at this...
Our worship theme this month has beenseeking, and when I started to think of what I would say in a sermon on this theme, one of the first things that came to mind was the song I just quoted, “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” by U2. This was the second track o...
This novel not only reflects the love of words but also the events of the time—the battle for women’s suffrage and eventually World War I. At first, I had difficulty getting into it, but that may in part have had to do with my problems with eBooks. Eventually, I was sucked in and...
Brooklyn, New York. Another collector, William Robertson Coe, of Oyster Bay, Long Island, whose company insured the Titanic, constructed a camellia home during World War I. It still stands. The original shipment of over a hundred camellias for Coe’s estate was torpedoed by a German ...
This part of old Bristol was heavily bombed during the war. The whole neighbourhood with houses, shops and cinemas near the river had to be demolished and instead the area was made into Castle Park. In the centre of the green space sits the shell of St Peter’s church, left as a memor...
But, when given the choice, it can be a difficult one. Of course, every profession is useful, but some are arguably better than others in general. Read on to see which profession is the better one for the average player, as well as how to use the Statue of Uncertainty to change profe...
Madame Guerin lived through the devastation of her country. It was she who thought the poppy was appropriate for remembrance of so many lost lives, based on the poem. She established a way of making small, artificial flowers by paying those disabled by the war to make the poppies and then...
s running both sides of the American Civil War using the Order of the Golden Circle as their mask along with the theft of the equivalent of trillions of dollars in cash bearer bond tax money which was used to finance a German robber baron (Masonic) rape of US natural resources, then the...
This is visualized by a f ield of poppies, each representing a war and expressing the number of casualties in its size.The poppy, being a symbol of commemorating military deaths in wars, is a cultural convention that may be unfamiliar to some, and therefore also provocative. The reader can...